Why are right wingers so damn dumb all of the time? It's right in the article. Obama didn't wait and do nothing for 6 months as you claimed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a detailed
timeline of this pandemic on its website. It shows that the CDC first activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on April 22, 2009. At the time, there were only two confirmed cases in the United States. On April 25, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern, and the following day the Obama administration did the same. At that time, there were about 20 confirmed cases.
Despite the CDC’s efforts, the swine flu continued to spread. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services,
renewed the emergency declaration on July 24, 2009, and then again on Oct. 1, 2009. On Oct. 24, 2009, Obama declared a national emergency that gave officials more resources to fight the pandemic.